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The Ontario Bar Association says it is concerned that the provincial government’s latest proposal to alter the way it picks judges could “unduly politicize the process,” as MPPs debate the changes in the shadow of Premier Doug Ford’s recent public comments that judicial independence is a “joke.”The group, which represents the province’s legal profession, said it supported speeding up judicial appointments but warned in an e-mailed statement to The Globe and Mail that some of the proposed changes warrant a second look in order to protect “judicial independence and the rule of law.”The...